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...confidently expected that President Roosevelt, their national secretary Son James Roosevelt, and 10,000 delegates would attend their second national convention in Milwaukee. Last week some 1,500 delegates showed up, but not President Roosevelt, busy with Congress in Washington, nor Son James, ill with a sore throat at Hyde Park. Sadly disappointed, but still hoping that Son Franklin Jr. might appear, the delegates sat down to listen to a speech by Pennsylvania's Governor George H. Earle. Midway in his speech a lanky youth of 19 stepped out on the flag-decked platform unannounced, sidled toward a chair...
...McReynolds of the House Foreign Affairs Committee to a solemn White House conference. Siding with the President and State Department for a "may" embargo, House Chairman McReynolds entered the White House bristling with defiance of the Senate. "They can't jam unsatisfactory neutrality legislation down my throat," he shouted...
...past four years Mr. Churchill has been slashing his own political throat, leading a series of vain attacks on Conservative Leader Stanley Baldwin in an effort to split the party on the India Constitution Bill (TIME, Feb. 9, 1931 et scq.). This Gargantuan measure now having been passed, ''Winnie" Churchill last week abruptly returned to the Baldwin fold, pledged ''whole hearted" support to the Government and strove to bandage his self-inflicted political wounds by the clarion announcement: "Dangers larger and nearer than Indian dangers gather on our path. . . . We have to play our part...
...throat operation performed on Orator Hitler last May, two days after he displayed great hoarseness in his full- length oration to the Reichstag (TIME, June 3), was officially announced last week to have been for the removal of a polyp or outgrowth from the mucous membrane. Called "successful," the polypectomy was said to have cured Hitler's hoarseness...
...trucking is still the province of nearly 300,000 independent trucking outfits. For years Mr. Keeshin has been trying to persuade truckmen to stop cut throat competition, fix rates. Says he : "There simply was not sufficient honor among them to stick together." Like most big truckmen, he finally asked for Federal regulation. Last week Mr. Keeshin was prime proof of the contention that the new Motor Carrier Law, placing trucks under the Interstate Commerce Commission (TIME, Aug. 19), will help both railroads and big trucking companies at the expense of small, hand-to-mouth trucksters...